Danny B

When it gets warmer outside Andy I might PM you for some advice with the waxing if you dont mind :D ??.....I know theres thread on it but they always seem to get muddled with opinions and products.

do you do all the claying and waxing yourself ?

.....I didnt follow your Nugget thread Andy but I'm guessing the tribute is the yellow rear badges from what I can see.....looks great on the blue like that ALOT :salute: I would never choose those wheels in a showroom but fitted they look spot on :D I've given up cleaning the C over winter, gets dirty in one day :brickwall:

.....the bit you mention at the end about not wanting a car serivced by its owner has had me thinking for while actually.....I always think that servicing my car myself is a bonus that the next buyer would be pleased with, however, at the end of the day he/she isnt gonna know me from 'adam' and therefore how can he/she be confident in what I may/or maynot have done when servicing it.....I reakon that de-values the car to be honest. Thus I have decided that I will carry out the servicing and small work on my car once a year and then have a speacialist ( the phirm if anyone cares or wants to know ) also service the car once a year so to keep up the stamps in the book.....I think this is a good way to go if your wanting to keep the value of your car as high as possible.....although with the price of VR's at the moment I fear its a lot of effort for not much gain :(

I was gonna say actually for the price you would get for the VR :( , even with the low miles you have on yours Imran, surely its worth considering running both......I run my VR as a second car and not doing many miles in it really keeps the costs down !!! good luck with it either way, nice choice to have.....dropping R32 prices the great benefits of the so called credit crunch. :lol:

....ok so the only damaged you possibly could do by letting it idle for ten mintues when stone cold is to the cat, so if you have a de-cat :) then no worries !! I understand all the basics about changing up early, and letting the oil get up to temp, but what I was really getting at was can you rev it when sitting still, stone cold, under no load and not do the engine any harm......its more a question of interest over anything else.

......I'm not worrying I'm enquiring :lol: ......

.....so am I the only one that for years thought I was doing the write thing in letting the engine warm up before I drive it when in actual fact I m doing it more harm than good......

Really :shock: blimey I've never read that before !!

Everytime I get into the c I try to warm it up before we get moving, sometimes this involves letting it sit on the driveway for 5 mins before setting off......its got to the stage where I'm a bit obsessed with it, but thats another story....my girlfriend thinks I'm mad aswell :lol:. Anyway, my question is, is it true that the vast majority of a cold engines wear and tear comes from the load its put under when moving, and that when there is no load....sitting still.....its ok to increase the revs to quite a high level to warm it through more quickly ??? I have read somewhere that this is in part why you hear F1 cars rev the nuts off themselves when sitting still as it doesnt actually put much stress on the engine......not that I'm comparing my C to an F1 car you know :D

Steve do you take your C to The Phirm......just a question out of interest as I see your from Guildford ?

Steve your going paranoid, havent you already checked the spare tyre :shock: !!! Thing with the plastic housing is that it PROBABLY doesnt have to feel massivly loose for it to squeek I suppose.....this is what I'm thinking anyway, which is why when I get the time I'm gonna see if I can change any fastners on it. Not looking forward to it though, I can just see me doing a load of work and then still sharing my car with the mouse :( !!

......:lol: :lol: I do this so often

I got worried when I first started to read this thread.....but it just gets better and better......well done mate for saving a corrado from the brink of disaster :salute:

I'm glad myn isnt intermettent that would annoy me more I think........ Its so difficult to descibe things written down when your last name isnt King and your first name isnt Stephen :scratch: !! Basically on the inside of the boot door theres a big plastic casing that runs the length of the door, which obvioulsy covers the gubbings including the lock and spoiler mechanisms......hope thats an improvement on my last atempt ! I think in myn this plastic panel is slightly loose and needs knew tighter clips/fastners. p.s. took my spare wheel out and unfortunatly illusions of a quick fix were quickly eradicated :(

Yeah Steve sounds like you got same problems as me, but my mouse sounds like its breeding now. I'm sure its coming from the plastic spolier housing on the boot, but I havent got round to looking at it yet. Never thought of the spare wheel thing though, might take myn out and see if it makes a difference. watch this space.

Yeah Steve sounds like you got same problems as me, but my mouse sounds like its breeding now. I'm sure its coming from the plastic spolier housing on the boot, but I havent got round to looking at it yet. Never thought of the spare wheel thing though, might take myn out and see if it makes a difference. watch this space.

I dont like knocking peoples efforts, but I really dont understand why people do these kind of things, they never look quite right and I think even if I had the skill or know-how then I would always look back at it annoyed that it doesnt look quite right !! ......each to their own I suppose, I do admire the effort.

lovely car mate, wish we could get away with driving around with no front plates over here :( what colour is it ?

not the foam rubbers Phil, already checked and replaced and still squeaking......doh !! Adding an image to profile is done through the User Control Panel, then click on Profile, then Edit Avatar and then uplaod image.....good luck.

cool thanks for the advise :)

......suppose usable power is key.....I know how you feel my tyres are pretty close to being dead at the moment and it spins all over the place when you put the power down in the wet....onto the diffinitive tyre thread for me !!!

Or 4th.. :( ....actually forth would have been better at least I would have had SOME drive....neutral aint good !!

oh god I thought my experience was bad....a smart car :shock:

Well that was the case to be honest, first had it dealt with but i got complacent and buggered (sorry 3corsameal :) ) missed second and the end as they say was history......doh